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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1903.
Fol. 93. y water and mudde of y? Ganges Sent from them [Brachmans] wth theire Choppe or Seale Vpon it is accompted Sacred: Even soe farre as Persia wee had Severall Mortavan Jarrs on board, some full of water Others of Mudde of y? Biuer Ganges, sent as pṛsents to y? great Merchants of y? Banjan Cast (in this Kingdome [Bengala]).
Not in Yale. [The quotations give the ceveral uses of the word in the 17th century, viz., for the Hugli River, any large month of the Ganges in the Gangetic Delta, the Ganges Proper.]
GANTON.
Fol. 152. [In Queda] Theire Weights and measures are Gantange cont Exactly 2 Achin Bamboos.
See Yule, s. v. Ganton.
y: Gantange : One
GANZA.
Fol. 84. [Gong] made of fine Gans of Pegu: viz! a very good Sort of bell mettle. Fol. 158. ffrom Pegu.... Gans.
See Yule, s. v. Ganza: bell-metal.
GARCE.
Fol. 56. they transport [from the Coast of Gingalee] above 10000: Gorse of graine yearly.
See Yule, s. v. Garce. [A large grain measure in the Madras Presidency: anything up to 4 tons and more. See ante, Vol. XXX. p. 408, article on "Tomb." N. and E. has, p. 40 for 2nd Dec. 1689: Upon application from Lingapa for a garse of wheat upon payment, it is resolved to supply it gratis."]
GENTILE-GENTOOE.
Fol. 3. The Natiue inhabitans [of ffort St Georg's] are for y! most part Gentiles (commonly called Gentues).
Fol. 18 The Gentues accompt themselves a very antient people .
They are indeed y? Antient Gentiles and as I jmagine of the Seed of those who revolted from Moses, forgettinge God to worship a Molten Calfe.
There is
another Sort of these Idolaters who are accompted to be of a higher Cast (then y? Gentues be).
Fol. 24. gaue me some white and yellow flowers she tooke from her haire of her head that was beautifully adorned after y? Gentue fashion.
Fol. 26. but those Naturall Mallabars y inhabit Vpon y Mallabar Coast. . . . . of noe gentile Occupations, neither are they admitted into y: Society of y Banjans or Gentues Either in theire houses or Pagods.
Fol. 69. y richest of Gentues and Banjan Merchants, of web this Part of y! Kingdome hath great numbers.
Fol. 70. he sent for most rich Merchants of Gentues and Banjans.
See Yule, 8. v. Gentoo. [The quotations are valuable for showing that Gentile meant a Gentoo and Gentoo a low-caste Hindu. N. and E. p. 88 for 20th Nov. 1680, has "the Mutineers threaten to kill the Gentue Oxmen if they bring goods or provisions into the Town, whereupon the merchants undertake to obtain supplies by means of the left handed Oxmen." Here again we seem to have Gentue as a low-caste (Pariah) Hindu in contradistinction to the left-handed or artizan castes. The curious sectarian division in Hinduism known as the right and left hand castes of South India should certainly have found a place in Yule, as these terms are constantly mentioned in old books. They include a great number of castes following some the Vaishnava and some the Saiva faith in their
